Gartner Research: The Top 10 Cloud Myths

Cloud computing is uniquely susceptible to the perils of myths. In this research, Gartner writes, “From a consumer perspective, ‘in the cloud’ means where the magic happens, where the implementation details are supposed to be hidden.” To address this and other misperceptions that surround cloud, Gartner offers a top 10 list of cloud myths—covering important workloads like dev-test as well as issues such as security, scalability, and hybrid capability—to clarify how the cloud actually works for the enterprise.